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The Daily Bide is brought to you by a team of writers from Youth for Christ/USA. The writers all have various years of experience in youth ministry but share a common bond in serving Jesus and discovering what it means to abide deeply everyday and to connect God's Story with those around them. A number of the Daily Bide writers have also written portions of our 3Story® resources. You can check out our resources or connect with our writers at dailybide@yfc.org. If you have a question or a story you would like to share, please reference the Daily Bide date in your email.

TODAY'S STORY
This Puppy-Sized Spider Will Haunt Your Dreams
Source: Liz Naporent, Good Morning America
If you didn’t have arachnophobia before now, this puppy-sized spider should do the trick.
Known as South American Goliath birdeater, the humongous eight-legged creepy crawly creature has a body the size of a fist and a leg span the size of a small child. Harvard entomologist Piotr Naskrecki recently encountered one while taking a nighttime stroll through a rain forest in Guyana.
"When I turned on the light, I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing," Naskrecki...

TODAY'S STORY
Source: NPR.org
More than 25 years ago, Saroo Brierley was one of many poor children in rural India. At 4 years old, he couldn't read: He didn't even know the name of his hometown. His mother was raising four children on her own, and they were constantly hungry. Brierley's older brothers would hop trains to nearby towns to search for scraps to eat.
One day, Brierley tagged along to the next city down the rail line. He took a nap in the station, and when he woke up, he couldn't see his brother....

TODAY'S STORY
Football star Te'o's girlfriend and her death a hoax, U.S. college says
Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o, whose on-field excellence after his grandmother and online girlfriend purportedly died made him a hero in the sports media, was the victim of a hoax because the girl never existed, the university said on Wednesday.
The girlfriend, who called herself Lennay Kekua and claimed to be a Stanford graduate, was merely an online persona who "ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died...